September 2015

Team #10237 began meeting the first week of school. Our initial goals were to familiarize ourselves with the Tetrix kits and to prepare for the kickoff event that would reveal this year's challenge. We also hosted a very successful Open House event at our school.

Andrew, Troy, and Mike begin work on PushBot.	Jack MacIntosh and Zach Paganini working on a gripper arm.	Zach, Andrew and Troy exploring the kits.
John Hollington working on a basic chassis.	Jack and Zach working on an assembly for PushBot.	Troy, Andrew and Zach at work.
Jack, Mike, Arjun and Dylan experimenting with the kits.	Mike and Arjun hosting the Robotics table at our evening Open House event.

After a frantic week of building, we assembled PushBot, a basic robot design that was published by the FIRST organization for rookie teams. We had a very successful kickoff event and were one of the few teams there with a working robot. This year's challenge was revealed to be RES-Q, one of the hardest challenges in recent memory.

Completed PushBot design.	Dylan works on mounting PushBot's electronics.	Dylan and Mike discuss PushBot's electronics.
Our first look at the RES-Q ramps.	Troy, Zach, Jack and Reed discuss strategy at the kickoff event.	Many other teams at the kickoff event.
The team practices with PushBot at the kickoff event.	Mike and Troy get a first look at the game manual for RES-Q at the kickoff event.